Writer-activist Jagdeesh Singh states that the second decisive victory of the Bharatiya Janta Party in the Indian general elections sends out not only a signal but a clear affirmation to the world and to civilian populations within Indian territorial boundaries, that Hindu supremism has risen and is here to stay! He argues that the basis of India was always a majoritarian Hindu India which was challenged remarkably by Sant Jarnail Singh Bhindranwale in June 1984. 

THE continued, unstalled rise of the Hindutva supremacist-cum-nationalist agenda since the formation of the Indian state in 1947, has now reached full political-governance level. The dormant, yearning, Hindutva power seeking syndrome, that was eagerly propagated decades earlier by the Hindu supremacist visionaries like Hedgewar and Sawarkar, has now matured into a full-blown, aggressive political leviathan!

The Indian state was always going to be so, by its very nature and by default because of its majoritarianism, centralistic, formation; a Hindu-centric entity ruled and used by a Hindu-Indian elite.

The Nehru-Gandhi duo and their coterie, did much to conceal this embedded base reality from other nations, socio-religious and ethnic communities (e.g. Panjaabis, Sikhs, Muslims, Nagas, Tamils, Kashmiris, Manipuris, Dalits) as the crunch moment of the 1947 British transfer of power arrived.

The Nehru-Gandhi talk of a secular India was all talk, and no substance, designed to attract and mislead communities like the Sikhs, Dalits, Kashmiris and more into acceding into an Indian Union. The same game of sweet promises was played by Jinnah to the Sikhs and others. Both sides proved to be utter, abject liars!

The speedy, instant and ethnically cleansing 1947 carve-up of the colonially conquered map of South Asia (‘India’), was always going to serve select interests and create power for ruling elites on both sides.

The stupendous lie of India being a clean, secular, non-religious, non-sectarian, wondrous creation in 1947, was in itself a propagated lie! India has unravelled and unfolded into its natural shape and configuration, over the last 70-years. India was by design a Hindu power base, to be used as ever prior by cruel, tyrannical Hindu heads of state to maladminister and misgovern their civilian population.

The Nehru-Gandhi talk of a secular India was all talk, and no substance, designed to attract and mislead communities like the Sikhs, Dalits, Kashmiris and more into acceding into an Indian Union. The same game of sweet promises was played by Jinnah to the Sikhs and others. Both sides proved to be utter, abject liars!

The textbooks, speeches, slogans and rhetoric of a great, free, inclusive India; are a vicious, abject smoke-screen to conceal the cruelties of what has been the cancerous baby that took birth in 1947.

India always enshrined Hindu power and Hindu political identity, directly and indirectly. The Hindu mass which occupies and populates the many core, middle administrative states of India’s mega-territorial size; in their keen affiliation to Hindu identity and empowerment (spurred on by hatred of ‘separatist’ Sikhs, Kashmiris, Manipuris and the rebellious equality seeking Dalits and ‘tyrannical’ fifth columnist Muslims), were always going to emerge as the central, mass electoral base of India. When you have such big, overwhelming majorities to rely on; you don’t need to address or respond to minority concerns.

The driver and blood-flow of India is Hindu identity, Hindu empowerment and Hindu supremism. Courageously defiant persons like Jarnail Singh Bhindranwale (1947-1984), forewarned of this rising monstrosity and pointed to its ugly divisive and sectarian features during his monumental life. He dared to stand up and challenge the mega-Indian state. He was, thus, targeted, criminalised and murdered in the notorious, genocidal Indian Army military strike on Amritsar and wider East Panjaab in June 1984.

India was designed on the basis of majority versus minority, numbers. This was the duplicitous trick of Indian ‘democracy’. Engulf and overwhelm by sheer population numbers, and call it ‘democracy’.

Sant Jarnail Singh dared to stand up and challenge the mega-Indian state. He was, thus, targeted, criminalised and murdered in the notorious, genocidal Indian Army military strike on Amritsar and wider East Panjaab in June 1984.

There are those fanciful persons who seek to deceive themselves and others, as to the true nature of the Indian state. The Indian state no longer hides its open and brute identity from anyone. The forewarnings of a ‘militant’, ‘separatist’, ‘criminal terrorist’ like Bhindranwale, have unfolded into reality.

The only commendable thing about the current, further rise of the Hindutva state, is that it will remove once and for all any lingering doubts about the much propagated ‘secular’ label of the Indian state. The Hindu supremacist monster was always there, lying in wait for its full-frontal rise to power; aided and abetted through the Indian National Congress and other governments over previous decades.

The outlying, border nations that sit on the outskirts of the Indian state – Panjaab, Kashmir, Manipur, Tamilnadu, Manipur, Nagaland – have always been restive and outspoken against this suffocating, tyrannical giant of Indianism and Indianisation. To be Indian is to be Hindu, and to be Hindu is to be Indian! as the BJP leaders have consistently told us for the last 10 years or more. The Congress party may not put it in so many words but spared no opportunity to feed the Hindu fangs.

Tragically, the numerically small nations which were swept into the territorial subsumption of the Indian state in 1947 (and vice-versa into the parallel Muslim majoritarian-supremacist Pakistan); have been rendered powerless and defenceless against the might and tyranny of the aggressive and belligerent Indian state.

Meanwhile, the Dalit ‘Hindu’ underclass that is geographically spread and interspersed across the Indian state, are just as persecuted and oppressed by the simple fact of their ‘untouchable’ birth. Indeed, many Dalits accept this as a natural. embedded, normalised condition of their lives – a grave symptom of complete disempowerment. The same mental degradation and subjugation apply to all the other aforementioned nations, ethnicities and communities, who have borne the brunt of 70-years of suppression and repression. Becoming a silent witness to their fate as the Hinduistic ‘boa-constrictor’ (D Petrie, Report on Developments on Sikh Politics, 1911) squeezes and suffocates them into a paralysing, deadly submission.

The only commendable thing about the current, further rise of the Hindutva state, is that it will remove once and for all any lingering doubts about the much propagated ‘secular’ label of the Indian state. The Hindu supremacist monster was always there, lying in wait for its full-frontal rise to power; aided and abetted through the Indian National Congress and other governments over previous decades.

India will now unfold further and further into its Hindu supremacist substance, and precipitate its own final collapse under the weight of this.